Experts

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Deputy director and senior fellow with the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

PhD, Adjunct Lecturer, American University of Armenia

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

Associate Professor, Università Roma TRE

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Director of Inter-ethnic relations Department of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

Dr., Head of the Center for Comparative Eurasia Studies and Surveys, CEASS-Vienna, RIAC Expert

Ph.D. in International Relations, Deputy Director of Institute for Iran & Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Lecturer at University of Tehran

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of Board of Trustees of RIAC

Research Fellow, MSU Institute of Information Security Issues, RIAC Expert

Institute of Oriental Studies

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

Scientific director of the Lobachevsky Sate University of Nizhny Novgorod

Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

PhD in History, Senior Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD, Associate Professor, Deputy Director, International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO-University, RIAC expert

RAS Institute of Economics

Head of the Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of MGIMO-University, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History, Deputy Director for Science of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS, Head of the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Political Science, Deputy Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), HSE University, RIAC Expert

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the MGIMO University

PhD in Philology; Associate Professor; Department of the Theory of Law and Comparative Legal Science HSE

Independent Analyst

RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History, RIAC Expert

PhD in History, Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

Doctor of War Science, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of War Sciences

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Center for Human Demography and Ecology, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Dr. of Political Sciences, Head of Black Sea and Mediterranean Studies Centre, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)